/*    Copyright 2010 Tobias Marschall
 *
 *    This file is part of MoSDi.
 *
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package mosdi.paa;

/** PAAs implementing this interface have deterministic emissions, that is, their emissions
 *  follow a Dirac distribution.
 *  Knowing that the emissions are deterministic allows faster algorithms in some places.
 *  Thus this interface should be implemented whenever emissions are deterministic.
 */
public interface DeterministicEmitter {
	
	/** Returns the (deterministic) emission of the given <code>state</code>. */
	public int getEmission(int state);
}
